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overheated Savage
06/29/10 at 19:30:38

bought a Savage yesterday and was practicing slow speed in the parking lot for over an hour (preparing for a test). when brought it back to the garage I could tell the 'burnt rubber' smell. the front brake rotor was HOT. what could it have been (the smell that is) - the brake pads, the clutch, just some rubber touching the engine? any chance of serious damage? the bike has around 12k miles and i doubt the valves clearance has ever been done - i am the 7th or so owner in 6 years, noone owned it for over a year. i can't blame them though, if i knew for sure i'd sell it next year i wouldn't bother either...
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28850 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #1 - 06/29/10 at 22:02:14 Stuff gets hot,.. smells start happenin'... It's most likely fine... It'll warn you by getting all stumbly and probably die before it seizes at in town speeds...
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Routy Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2280 Winston Oregon Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #2 - 06/29/10 at 22:31:10 Any oil leaks, maybe getting to the exhaust ? That smell can be much more noticable at low speed.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: overheated Savage Reply #3 - 06/29/10 at 22:43:54 Were you holding the brake to keep the seeds low? If so, the poor thing was working hard, getting little air & possibly being held at too low a speed to get good oil to the top of the engine. I wouldnt recommend doing that.
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jabman Senior Member Offline Posts: 411 England Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #4 - 06/30/10 at 01:31:43 is it possible the brakes are dragging this would result in a very hot disc and would over stress the engine as well
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Re: overheated Savage
Reply #5 - 06/30/10 at 02:18:31

1st of all I would change that oil soon (small/smart investment).

2nd, that front disc is carbonized steel,
it can get red hot and it'll still be fine.

3rd, large air-cooled engines need... yup, you guessed it, AIR.
* Next parking lot session just run it round the block every 10 min.

Good luck, and why sell it? A LS650 is a perfectly fine bike, L8r.

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Yan YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 30	Re: overheated Savage Reply #6 - 06/30/10 at 04:11:55 Thanks! Hopefully it's fine. It was riding fine for 2 miles back home from that parking lot, it's just the smell that I felt when I pulled into the garage. Will be giving it more often breaks from low speed tonight
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Re: overheated Savage
Reply #7 - 06/30/10 at 04:36:04

just rode it back to the parking lot (truth to be told it's my wife who's practicing there, I just take the bike to the parking lot in the morning and back to the garage at night). parked the bike and here is that smell again, but i only rode it for 2 miles at 25 mph. WTF? I kneel down, sniff at every part of the engine and beyond and finally find the source. turns out when i ride the heel of my right shoe touches the exhaust and the rubber of the heel was burning on the exhaust. so nothing wrong with the bike, but how do i take that black gummy stuff off the shiny chrome exhaust now?

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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #8 - 06/30/10 at 05:16:48 Let it dry, (but don't wait days) then you should be able to "chip" the residue off. At least that worked when I threw my fleece jacket over the seat and the sleeve landed on the exhaust....
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #9 - 06/30/10 at 05:32:15 You can also use "Easy Off" oven cleaner. Try to avoid overspray, because the stuff will damage paint or aluminum.
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Savage_Amusement Serious Thumper Offline On this steel horse I ride. Posts: 1004 Omaha, NE Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #10 - 06/30/10 at 06:42:08 I was just going to say I bet 10$ it is your shoe lol. Then I saw your last post.
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Hashbrown Full Member Offline What can brown do for you! Posts: 235 Nashua, NH Gender:	Re: overheated Savage Reply #11 - 06/30/10 at 06:45:49 hahaha, you were freaking out on your poor defenseless savage and it was your shoe the whole time. we should get you a jump to conclusions mat. now go to your garage and appologize to her and give her a nice oil change
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Reply #12 - 06/30/10 at 08:39:50

turns out when i ride the heel of my right shoe touches the
exhaust and the rubber of the heel was burning on the exhaust.

Grin

lol, EPIC.

* easy fix, get some fine angel hair (stainless steel wool, no the drug Cheesy

)
and use your bike for a few minutes, and when the exhaust it really hot
get that wool wet and scrub that nasty burned rubber off, after
that pass a dry, clean cotton rag/towel over the area to take
away residual rubber streaks, repeat if necessary, easy as pie!

(* use a towel or heavy glove or that steam WILL burn you,
but the steam is actually what gets that crap out with out
chemicals or scratching ur pipe).

I had the same problem, all my boots are burnt, haha,
this makes a great conversation piece for weird ppl who
look at other people's shoes, anyway, so look, I crafted
an aluminum back-peg for my bike, prob solved, good luck.

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Re: overheated Savage
Reply #13 - 06/30/10 at 10:47:17

The best stuff for taking off burnt rubber off of chrome is "Blue Magic",
don't believe me try the stuff ... it takes any evidence of it off with no effort at all ... The only problem is once you do that little spot you will want to polish the rest of the chrome so it looks as good.

http://bluemagicusa.com/index.php/blue_magic/products/210/blue_magic_metal_po...

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Re: overheated Savage
Reply #14 - 06/30/10 at 10:57:29

jsarsfield wrote on 06/30/10 at 10:47:17:

The best stuff for taking off burnt rubber off of chrome is "Blue Magic",
don't believe me try the stuff ... it takes any evidence of it off with no effort at all ... The only problem is once you do that little spot you will want to polish the rest of the chrome so it looks as good.

http://bluemagicusa.com/index.php/blue_magic/products/210/blue_magic_metal_po...

Looks good, will try some. Thanks! I see they also make an exhaust repair kit. Has anyone tried it? Might try it on my little exhaust leak.

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